London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

See in the New Year at one of London's top NYE parties: there's glitz and glamour at a Gatsby soiree, a shameless celebration of power ballads, a dirty great rave with the Prodigy and many more to choose from this New Year's Eve. See you in 2014!

Financial adviser David Jeffs has been jailed for life with a minimum of 24 years for the violent murder of Roberto Troyan, who was his client, and for conning him out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

A football injury may have put James Connelly’s foot in a cast but it hasn’t slowed him down. The founder of mobile marketing company Fetch only launched the business four years ago but already customers including Debenhams, Expedia, Taco Bell and hotels.com pay anything from £50,000 to £1 million a month for its technical wizardry.